About the Dashboard Editor

You can use the Dashboard Editor to create and edit dashboards without writing a single line of XML code. From the Dashboard Editor you can do the following:

Create dashboards

Add panels to dashboards

Add form inputs to convert the dashboard to a form

Rearrange dashboard panels using a drag-and-drop interface.

Edit the searches that drive data in the dashboard.

Specify different visualizations for a panel.

Specify formatting options for a panel visualization.

Edit the source code for a dashboard.

Convert a dashboard to HTML.

Open the Dashboard Editor

To create a new dashboard:

From the Dashboards page of an app, click Create New Dashboard.You create dashboards from the context of an app. After you create a dashboard, you can modify the permissions to specify who has access to the dashboard. You can also move the dashboard to another app context.

Add a search, report, or pivot to a dashboard

You can add a search, report, or pivot as a panel to a new or existing dashboard.

Panel type

How to add this panel type to a dashboard

Search or Pivot

Click Save As > Dashboard Panel.

Report

Click Add to Dashboard.

Panel options vary depending on the panel type and whether you are adding the panel to an existing dashboard or creating a new one.

Panel permissions
The search that drives a dashboard panel can run using the permissions of the user who created the search (the search owner), or a user who views the dashboard (a search user).

Depending on the results data access that you want to provide, you can adjust the permissions context for a saved search in the savedsearches.conf configuration file.

Specify visualizations for the dashboard panel

When you run a new search or open a report, the visualizations recommended to you depend on the results of the search. If the search does not include transforming commands, only the events list is available. If you run the search in Verbose Mode, you can view a listing of events for the search, even if the search is a reporting search.

When you add the search to a dashboard panel, you select how the panel displays the results. You can later change your selection from the Dashboard Panel Editor.

Specify dashboard permissions

When creating a dashboard, you specify the following permissions for the dashboard from the Create Dashboard Panel:

PrivateOnly you have permissions to view and edit the dashboard.

Shared in AppThe dashboard is available to other users from the app in which you created the dashboard. Other users can view the dashboard, and depending on their permissions, edit the dashboard.

After creating a dashboard you can change the permissions.

From the Dashboards page, locate the dashboard for which you want to edit permissions.

Under Actions, select Edit > Edit Permissions

Specify the following:

Display for Owner, App, or All Apps

Read and write privileges for usersYour user role, and capabilities defined for that role, can limit the type of access you can define.

More about dashboard permissions

A dashboard is a knowledge object in Splunk Enterprise and you manage its permissions accordingly. Your user role (and capabilities defined for that role) may limit the type of access you can define.

For example, if your user role is "user" with the default set of capabilities, then you can only create dashboards that are private to you. You can, however, provide read and write access to other users.

If your user role is "admin" with the default set of capabilities, then you can create dashboards that are private, visible in a specific app, or visible in all apps. You can also provide access to other Splunk user roles.

Edit permissions example

The following example shows how an admin user can set permissions for a dashboard.

Note: For other user roles, such as "user," the choices for permissions in the Dashboard Editor are a subset of the choices available to the admin user.

For a dashboard, select Edit then select Edit permissions

Specify permissions for the dashboard and click Save. Choose from the following:

Owner: The dashboard is only visible to the user who created it.

App: Dashboards can be visible only for the app in which it was created. Specify the read and write permissions for user roles.

All apps: The dashboard is visible from all apps. Specify the read and write permissions for user roles.

Convert a dashboard to a form

The underlying simple XML for a form differs slightly from the simple XML for a dashboard. There are two ways to convert a dashboard to a form:

Add a time picker or a form input to a dashboard.The underlying simple XML updates to convert the dashboard to a form.

Edit the source simple XML for a dashboard to include form elements.

Customize a dashboard

There are several options to customize a dashboard, adding features not available from the Dashboard Editor.

Edit the underlying simple XML to implement advanced features.Typically, you edit the simple XML to edit visualization features that are not available from the interactive editors. You can also take advantage of tokens from search strings to customize the appearance of text. See About editing simple XML and Token usage in dashboards.

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